linux-toradex.git/include/asm-um/pgtable.h, branch v2.6.24.2

page table handling cleanup

2007-07-16T16:05:36+00:00

Kill pte_rdprotect(), pte_exprotect(), pte_mkread(), pte_mkexec(), pte_read(),
pte_exec(), and pte_user() except where arch-specific code is making use of
them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: pte_mkread fix

2007-03-01T22:53:38+00:00

Fix the fact that pte_mkread set _PAGE_RW instead of _PAGE_USER (the logic is
copied from i386 in most place, so it is really as bad as you're thinking).

Thus currently page tables are more permissive than they should.

Such a change may trigger other latent bugs, so be careful with this.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml-i386: fix build breakage with CONFIG_HIGHMEM

2007-02-02T00:17:06+00:00

missing helper used by arch/i386/mm/highmem.c, which is pulled
into build on that configuration.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Acked-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: remove pte_mkexec

2006-09-29T16:18:04+00:00

Andi is making pte_mkexec go away, and UML had one of the last uses.

This removes the use and the definition.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macros

2006-09-26T15:48:51+00:00

One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the
pxx_page macros.  pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct
page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel
have returned the kernel virtual address.  pud_page and pgd_page, on the
other hand, return the kernel virtual address.

Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page
structures.  There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is
simple to standardize their usage.

Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone
patch.  Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the
pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning.

Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: pte_offset_map_lock loops

2005-10-30T04:40:40+00:00

Convert those common loops using page_table_lock on the outside and
pte_offset_map within to use just pte_offset_map_lock within instead.

These all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level can a
page table be whipped away from beneath them.  But whereas pte_alloc loops
tested with the "atomic" pmd_present, these loops are testing with pmd_none,
which on i386 PAE tests both lower and upper halves.

That's now unsafe, so add a cast into pmd_none to test only the vital lower
half: we lose a little sensitivity to a corrupt middle directory, but not
enough to worry about.  It appears that i386 and UML were the only
architectures vulnerable in this way, and pgd and pud no problem.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: don't redundantly mark pte as newpage in pte_modify

2005-09-23T05:17:36+00:00

pte_modify marks a page as needing flush, which is redundant because the
resulting PTE is still set with set_pte, which already handles that.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: inline mk_pte and various friends

2005-09-10T19:00:18+00:00

Turns out that, for UML, a *lot* of VM-related trivial functions are not
inlined but rather normal functions.

In other sections of UML code, this is justified by having files which
interact with the host and cannot therefore include kernel headers, but in
this case there's no such justification.

I've had to turn many of them to macros because of missing declarations. While
doing this, I've decided to reuse some already existing macros.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: merge duplicated page table code

2005-09-05T07:06:22+00:00

There is a lot of code which is duplicated between the 2 and 3 level
implementation, with the only difference that the 3-level implementation is a
bit more generalized (instead of accessing directly pte_t.pte, it uses the
appropriate access macros).

So this code is joined together.

As obvious, a "core code nice cleanup" is not a "stability-friendly patch" so
usual care applies.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: correct _PAGE_FILE comment

2005-09-05T07:05:45+00:00

_PAGE_FILE does not indicate whether a file is in page / swap cache, it is
set just for non-linear PTE's.  Correct the comment for i386, x86_64, UML.
Also clearify _PAGE_NONE.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds